History Main / AbandonedHospital

* ''{{Ghost Hound}}'' features an abandoned hospital that was where Tarou and Mizuka were found when they were kidnapped. It is also the place Hideo and the others investigated in their youth and later became cursed from. It scores extra points for having been submerged under water since the area turned into a dam sea several years before.

* The video for "Stricken" by {{Disturbed}} took place in one of these for no reason. The building's boiler room was apperently used to shoot a scene from ''NightmareOnElmStreet''; they included it in the video, again for no reason.

* Nelson S. Bond's Meg the Priestess enters one of these, the Place of Stlukes, which is well known to the locals as a temple of HIM (Death).

** Rumors have long persisted among locals that there are walled up portions of the Main Building's basement that contain the remains of tuberculosis patients who died during a time when TB ran rampant. "People say" that excavating these walled up rooms could end up infecting the workers in the building with tuberculosis, which could then spread to the greater population. This is a completely unfounded and illogical rumor, but if you've ever been in the Main Building's basement (as this Troper has), you would be hardpressed not to wonder what's in the walls.

* One which is far creepier in reality than any fictional Hospital is in the island of Guernsey, and yes it is in as in built underground. Constructed by ThoseWackyNazis in {{WW2}} during the island's occupation it was used as hospital, mortuary, ''ammunition store'', and * [[{{Ghostapo}} research centre]]* on Slavic Labourers. See a video of it [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Acd-IuMRL8 here]].

Many older, real life 'abandoned hospitals' in the U.S were properly called sanatoriums, and have probably contributed to the trope imagery. Their abandonment was sometimes related to loss of funding or new prohibitively expensive fixing due to new government regulations. Often the places were created to treat specific diseases at the time that were eventually locally eradicated (TB clinics in particular) without any later re-purposing of the structures. In popular fiction, san'''''a'''''t'''''o'''''riums also tend to get mixed up with san'''''i'''''t'''''a'''''riums, which makes people think of sick and crazed zombies instead.

*** So has the PRS at ''Paranormal State''.

* An abandoned hospital figures in the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goiânia_accident Goiânia accident]], one of the worst nuclear disasters in history.

* The Chicago State Hospital, now known as the Chicago-Read Mental Health Center in the community of Dunning on the Northwest Side. An insane asylum, sanitarium, and poor village was built there back in the 1860's and it eventually changed hands to the city. Many were taken there, to the point where it got horribly overcrowded in the 1910's. Eventually sections got closed down, including a small school and one of the hospitals, a rather big facility. Both of them lay abandoned for years, but the big hospital was eventually torn down for condos a few years back. The school is still there.

* Camarillo State Mental Hospital was a major facility in California with as many as 7,000 patients at one time, and a host of creepy stories about it. Now it's a California state university

* An abandoned hospital figures in the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goi%C3%A2nia_accident Goiânia accident]], one of the worst nuclear disasters in history.

* The Finnish movie ''Dark Floors''. A wheelchair-bound autistic girl is being treated at a hospital, gets her father and some other people trapped in a parallel-universe abandoned hospital somehow, then defeats some kind of demon. It's not wholly clear what was going on, but it looked cool.

* If you've said the words "haunted" and "hospital" in the Philadelphia region over the last thirty years, then you've heard of [[http://www.opacity.us/site10_philadelphia_state_hospital_byberry.htm Byberry Mental Hospital]]. Built in 1906 and finally demolished one hundred years later, it reads like a nonfiction checklist of haunted house cliches. Subterrenean tunnels? It's got 'em. Total lack of electricity? Check. Some brilliant fluke of architecture that renders most of the building pitch black even during the day? All yours, daddy-o. This place would give Dr. Vannacutt nightmares.

* The Chicago State Hospital, now known as the Chicago-Read Mental Health Center in the community of Dunning on the Northwest Side. An insane asylum, sanitorium, and poor village was built there back in the 1860's and it eventually changed hands to the city. Many were taken there, to the point where it got horribly overcrowded in the 1910's. Eventually sections got closed down, including a small school and one of the hospitals, a rather big facility. Both of them lay abandoned for years, but the big hospital was eventually torn down for condos a few years back. The school is still there.

* ''Session9'' takes place entirely in a haunted, abandoned mental hospital being stripped of asbestos. The eponymous Sessions are audio recordings of the memory retrieval therapy of a former patient of the hospital who suffers from Split Personality disorder. In each session the psychiatrist speaks to two characters, both of whom refer in terrified tones to the 3rd personality, a demonic entity named Simon, whose presence is revealed in the ninth therapy session (as is her repressed memory). The movie eventually reveals that [[spoiler:the main character--with memory repression and split personality problems, similar to the woman on the tape--killed everyone else, including his newborn child and wife, in brutal ways.]] The movie ends with an aerial shot of the months-later condemned hospital as the final session tape plays.

* ''Session 9'' takes place entirely in a haunted, abandoned mental hospital being stripped of asbestos. The eponymous Sessions are audio recordings of the memory retrieval therapy of a former patient of the hospital who suffers from Split Personality disorder. In each session the psychiatrist speaks to two characters, both of whom refer in terrified tones to the 3rd personality, a demonic entity named Simon, whose presence is revealed in the ninth therapy session (as is her repressed memory). The movie eventually reveals that [[spoiler:the main character--with memory repression and split personality problems, similar to the woman on the tape--killed everyone else, including his newborn child and wife, in brutal ways.]] The movie ends with an aerial shot of the months-later condemned hospital as the final session tape plays.

* "SAW", the video game based on the horror film series of the same name, takes place entirely within Whitehurst Asylum, an abandoned insane asylum.

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[[caption-width:440: The doctor will see you now...]]

* The one in [[TwentyEightDaysLater 28 Days Later]] set a nicely creepy tone for that portion of the movie, before we ever saw any Infected (outside the lab).

* The 2008 TheXFiles movie ''IWantToBelieve'' has several motifs of this trope (rust, dirt, old things, dirtied plastic dividers).

* In the film {{Creep}} the heroine finds an abandoned lab/maternity ward/surgical theatre deep underground, which appears to be where the creature comes from.

* Technically, {{Scrubs}} is shot in one of these.

* T.A.P.S., of GhostHunters fame, have visited a couple of these.
** So have the guys on GhostAdventures. As a rule, if great numbers of people have died there (somewhat inevitable with a hospital), there's gonna be some kind of haunting and paranormal investigators will come to check the place out.
* TheHistoryChannel series LifeAfterPeople goes into an abandoned hospital from the 1970s to show how the building has been taken over by nature in only 30 years.
* An episode of {{Millennium}} featured one of these when Frank and Lara went to investigate a killer nurse. The nurse would get his supplies from an abandoned hospital to avoid detection. To make things worse, the morgue actually contained a body that was forgotten and was used by the killer to test his skills and sate his morbid curiosity about death.
* In a few episodes of BeingHuman, an abandoned part of the hospital was used for transformations.

* The video for Stricken by {{Disturbed}} took place in one of these for no reason. The building's boiler room was apperently used to shoot a scene from ''NightmareOnElmStreet''; they included it in the video, again for no reason.

*The video for Vengeance Is Mine by AliceCooper is also set here.

* ''HalfLife 2'': Episode 1 features an abandoned hospital. Though it isn't really used for horror, it's pretty creepy, especially once the headcrab zombies turn up. Valve have said that the hospital was based partly on Chernobyl, and, as we all know, Chernobyl = instant creepy.

* DeadSpace has you visit the Ishimura's Medical Deck twice. And if you were scared the first time, the second trip floods it with [[HighOctaneNightmareFuel High Octane Nightmare Fuel]].
* TheSuffering features one of these levels as part of its nearly exhaustive tour of HorrorTropes.

*[[{{Siren}} Siren: Blood Curse]] has a very frightening segment where you play a defenseless little girl in the Sagai Hospital where everyone else is a Shibito.
* The various Facemakers shops in ''[[CityOfHeroes City of Villains]]'' look exactly like this, down to a corpse in a body bag on the front porch, but the chain is an active and very busy concern. One wonders why more villains don't suffer post-operative complications...

*{{FEAR}} has two of these, one of which apparently used to be a mental asylum. Like the rest of the game you find that most of the resistants died suddenly and violently, leaving only battle damage and blood.
* UrbanDead is full of abandoned hospitals which survivors try to hold onto for the first aid kits and the zombies try to raid for the brains.

* {{Fallout 3}} has one called Our Lady of Hope Hospital located in Downtown DC. The place is swarming with Super Mutants, Centaurs and skeletons.

* CityOfHeroes has a late-level mission set in a dilapidated hospital... filled to the brim with people who've been driven insane by Mother Mayhem.

* The original SystemShock has you waking up in the Medical floor of Citadel Station, which is filled with hostile mutants and cyborgs. The sequel starts near one.

* American [=McGee=]'s 'Alice' has many levels designed to play on Alice's awareness that she is locked in a mental institution, especially the Mad Hatter's asylum where he carries out experiments on his patients.

* BatmanArkhamAsylum has an abandoned hospital ward, which happens to be home to your first [[HighOctaneNightmareFuel encounter with Scarecrow]].
* [[http://www.oldgames.sk/en/game/legacy-the-realm-of-terror/ Legacy : The Realm of Terror]] features an insane asylum on the 3rd floor. Unfortunately, while abandoned by any semblance of normal people (if insane people can really be called normal), it is now happily inhabited by zombies and other mutant freaks.

*RubyQuest is set in one of these.